In some of the music communities I’m in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They’re all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match… Mark was right to call the people he’s leaching off of fucking idiots.

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It is. They know everything about you. Even every store you have shopped at knows a lot about you. It really doesn’t take much interaction for a company to get a lot of info. It’s relatively easy to get an email and from there, if they wanted, they can get the rest of your profile from a 3rd party who has your data all matched up already. They can also build your profile pretty easily themselves as well.

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I think personal data poisoning is going to become more prevalent among privacy communities, I would like to see some tooling for this in the next few years.

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It’s never too late. Sure, they already have a lot of data on you but you can keep them from getting more.

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Definitely. I’m was trying to state that basic info about you is readily available to companies regardless of how you choose to interact with them.

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How can regular people buy this data?

Say I wanted to find out what my profile looks like?

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42Y

Say I wanted to find out what my profile looks like?

Live in the EU.

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Yes. I would like this info as well if anyone has it .

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If you’re in the US, you can demand a company release the information they have on you, to you, for inspection. It’s more data than you’d think. A LOT more.

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You have the right to request access to inspect the personal information a company stores on you. At least, in the US. And I believe the UK and EU as well but I can’t speak as much to those.

If you want to be truly terrified (or enlightened, however you prefer to think of it), pick any big company that you’ve used and request all the data they have stored on you. The amount of data they’ll have is STAGGERING. Certainly hundreds of pages, possibly thousands. It’s insane.

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I imagine “you” can’t

you’d likely have to work for some marketing agency and can probably only buy user data in bulk amounts (based on region, or some other desired demographic) with a recurring business plan of course

it wouldn’t be financially beneficial for these companies to sell an individual thumbprint

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That makes sense.

So who wants to set up an marketing agency with me?

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That makes sense.

So who wants to set up an marketing agency with me?

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